Quotes from Brendan Rodgers

I've been fortunate enough to work with lots of really good players, so it would be disrespectful to single out the best.

All I can ever promise is that I will do my very best.

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You'll never see a pianist run around his piano. People ask me, 'Why don't you run through the forest, through the trees?' Well, I've never seen a tree on a football field.

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

I will always fight for my life for Liverpool, and that will be on and off the field.

I'm enriched by all my experiences, good and bad, but I've always tried to remain committed in my life as a coach and always positive.

If I was making the decision normally, with my heart, I'd never leave Celtic. My life was great. I loved the city. I loved the people. I loved the club. I had a wonderful life. If you think of all those things, you'd never move.

I had a wonderful time at Liverpool. My three and a half years there was a great experience.

I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.

I know how quickly it can all change. I nearly won the title at Liverpool, and everybody's saying, 'Sign him up' - then, very quickly, I was out.

If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

I like teams to control and dominate the ball so the players are hungry for the ball.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.

Simon Mignolet has been first class.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

Believe it or not, the sky is blue here in Glasgow. I absolutely love it here.